iTunes 4.9.5

Well I'm pretty underwelmed by the "new" iTunes, and it is buggy as well.
Despite a newer skin and folders (finally) I don't see much of anything else to be excited about.
I am using it on my PC, and the Windows version is crashing upon trying to connect to the Music Store. 3 times now I tried and each time it has said that it has encountered a problem an needs to close.
Anyone else agree or disagree? or have similar problems.

Well I'm pretty underwelmed by the "new" iTunes, and it is buggy as well.
Despite a newer skin and folders (finally) I don't see much of anything else to be excited about.
I am using it on my PC, and the Windows version is crashing upon trying to connect to the Music Store. 3 times now I tried and each time it has said that it has encountered a problem an needs to close.
Anyone else agree or disagree? or have similar problems.

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No trouble with connecting to Music Store on a WinXP machine.

No bugs I've noticed yet, except perhaps, it did re-upload 565 songs when I connected my iPod, but they don't appear to be duplicates.

Mine's worked flawless; granted, I'm running Tiger, but I haven't had single problem with it. Everything I've tried, in fact, seems to work better. Scrolling through the library in 4.9 sometimes brought little hiccups, mini-strokes, freezes, whatever they're called. 5.0 flows perfectly. Plus, with the folders, the sidebar looks much less cluttered.

Perhaps try a new download? Just completely erase/uninstall everything that's now there and go again. Good luck!

i hate itunes five. for one thing... the borderless window bothers me, and itunes adds just another interface style to Tiger, yay!! we now have aqua, brushed metal, plastics, and itunes "steel." Another thing they should not have touched after four version was the placement of the volume bar. I am used to going under play for years, and now next to fast forward!!! bad apple. bad.

ok... one thing growing on me are these folders. i dont have ilife '05 (never saw it as worth the money from '04) so i never used the folders in iPhoto. damn, they are nice. My source list was getting huge with playlists, and these folders are making it manageable.

There are a lot of little features that I'm betting people are missing. "Smart" shuffling. Being able to pick up any track where you left off at if you want to. Being able to stop songs from appearing in shuffle. Better importing options (ability to rip and eject CDs automatically when put in, for example.) Adding lyrics to songs. Etc.

I would have liked to have seen a few more "big" features to justify calling it 5.0, yes, but there is a lot of nice new stuff there.

There are a lot of little features that I'm betting people are missing. "Smart" shuffling. Being able to pick up any track where you left off at if you want to. Being able to stop songs from appearing in shuffle. Better importing options (ability to rip and eject CDs automatically when put in, for example.) Adding lyrics to songs. Etc.

I would have liked to have seen a few more "big" features to justify calling it 5.0, yes, but there is a lot of nice new stuff there.

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hmm... smart shuffle is there, you can import when putting in a cd, but not eject.

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